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Phil Buchman
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 Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:20 am Post subject: Freeware to hide computer like anonymous proxy? |
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I have heard of anonymous proxies that will hide your computer's identification from the sites that you visit on the internet. Is there any freeware that will do this from your computer, so that you wouldn't need to use an aonoymous proxy?
(Or, would your ISP not recognize your computer as a customer to give it internet access if such a freeware were in use?)
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Aaron
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:38 am Post subject: Re: Freeware to hide computer like anonymous proxy? |
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On Jul 14, 9:20 pm, Phil Buchman <@> wrote:
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| I have heard of anonymous proxies that will hide your computer's identification from the sites that you visit on the internet. Is there any freeware that will do this from your computer, so that you wouldn't need to use an aonoymous proxy? |
At the risk of over simplfying How these proxies work is that you connect to their site/server, and they will then connect to the site you want to visit. Think of them as a middleman who is sitting between you and the final site. As far as the final site is concerned you appear to be coming from the anonymous proxy.
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| (Or, would your ISP not recognize your computer as a customer to give it internet access if such a freeware were in use?) |
Your ISP will see you connecting to the anonymous proxy. That's all.
One freeware that is popular is Tor. It's actually stronger than most basic anonymous proxies because you use a bunch of them chained together.
"The solution: a distributed, anonymous network
Tor helps to reduce the risks of both simple and sophisticated traffic analysis by distributing your transactions over several places on the Internet, so no single point can link you to your destination. The idea is similar to using a twisty, hard-to-follow route in order to throw off somebody who is tailing you-and then periodically erasing your footprints. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it's going.
To create a private network pathway with Tor, the user's software or client incrementally builds a circuit of encrypted connections through servers on the network. The circuit is extended one hop at a time, and each server along the way knows only which server gave it data and which server it is giving data to. No individual server ever knows the complete path that a data packet has taken. The client negotiates a separate set of encryption keys for each hop along the circuit to ensure that each hop can't trace these connections as they pass through."
http://tor.eff.org/ |
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